FOOTNOTES:
[1]It may be doubted whether any compositions which have ever been produced in the world are equally perfect in their kind with the great Athenian orations.—Macaulay’s Essay, Athenian Orators
[2]The rest of the column is hopelessly mutilated.
[3]The rest of the column is mutilated.
[4]The remainder of this column and the whole of the next are either lost or so mutilated as to be unintelligible.
[5]When the next continuous passage is reached the speaker has quitted the direct issue and is attacking the political conduct of his adversary.
[6]Half a column is hopelessly mutilated here.
CHAPTER VIII
THE LATIN ORATORS
their style and means